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1.Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade: The Evolution of Dashiell Hammett's Masterpiece, Including John Huston's Movie with Humphrey Bogart (The Ace Performer Collection series) from: Vince Emery Productions September 07, 2005
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"Discovering the Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade" is an amazing collection of materials related to Dashiell Hammett, his greatest novel "The Maltese Falcon", the film adaptations of the book, and other spin-offs assembled by Hammett biographer Richard Layman. Layman states in his introduction, "The purpose of this volume is to provide researchers basic materials useful in studying 'The Maltese Falcon'." Not everything ever written about "The Maltese Falcon" is here, but the contents of this book are remarkably varied. The collection is probably too dense for casual fans of "The Maltese Falcon", but it's indispensable for Hammett scholars and aficionados. The only fault I find is that reproductions of newspaper and other type-written materials are sometimes poor and would have benefited from enhancement. ... Read More

2.Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammett, Ross Macdonald: A Literary Reference from: Carroll & Graf July 10, 2002
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"Discovering the Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade" is an amazing collection of materials related to Dashiell Hammett, his greatest novel "The Maltese Falcon", the film adaptations of the book, and other spin-offs assembled by Hammett biographer Richard Layman. Layman states in his introduction, "The purpose of this volume is to provide researchers basic materials useful in studying 'The Maltese Falcon'." Not everything ever written about "The Maltese Falcon" is here, but the contents of this book are remarkably varied. The collection is probably too dense for casual fans of "The Maltese Falcon", but it's indispensable for Hammett scholars and aficionados. The only fault I find is that reproductions of newspaper and other type-written materials are sometimes poor and would have benefited from enhancement. ... Read More

3.American Decades 1910-1919 (American Decades) by: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli 1996-07
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This anthology presents a wide variety of interesting info on all the decades that I used as one of my primary resources for information to do a project for my junior history class on the 1950's and 1960's. The writing is clear and concise but also keeps it interesting... I highly recommend these books!

4.Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett by: Dashiell Hammett, Richard Layman, Josephine Hammett Marshall May 01, 2001
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"Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett" includes 950 letters that Dashiell Hammett wrote between 1921 and 1960, spanning most of his adult life, from before his marriage to Josephine Dolan to just months before his death in 1961 -though the meaty correspondence stops a few years before that. Daughter Josephine Hammett Marshall started the project, and she nicely summarizes what these letters say about her father in the book's foreword. Editor (and Hammett biographer) Richard Layman discusses the sources in the preface. The letters were addressed to at least 17 different people plus some miscellaneous correspondence, but the most frequent recipients, in descending order, are: Hammett's friend and companion, the playwright Lillian Hellman; daughter Mary Hammett; daughter Josephine Hammett; wife Josephine ... Read More

5.Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett by: Richard Layman 1981-12
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Richard Layman's very detailed biograghy of world-famous American detective-story writer Dashiell Hammett, written in the early 1980's, is nearly a lost relic today. Thanks to Amazon, you can buy this book, and peruse this flighty gentleman's wild and crazy life. Hammett's 1929 "Maltese Falcon" novel changed the entire literary world, as the first authentic "hard-boiled" detective story. It's success was astounding, and world-wide. Movie offers followed(three film versions were made), and Hammett became very wealthy. Unfortunately, wine, women,and smoking damaged his already fragile health, and eventually dried up-up his writing career. Admittedly wasteful with money, Hammett abandoned his wife and family, moving to New York, and then to Hollywood, and installed himself at the penthouse at the Beverly ... Read More

6.American Poets Since World War II: Sixth Series (Dictionary of Literary Biography) from: Gale Cengage 1998-06
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Richard Layman's very detailed biograghy of world-famous American detective-story writer Dashiell Hammett, written in the early 1980's, is nearly a lost relic today. Thanks to Amazon, you can buy this book, and peruse this flighty gentleman's wild and crazy life. Hammett's 1929 "Maltese Falcon" novel changed the entire literary world, as the first authentic "hard-boiled" detective story. It's success was astounding, and world-wide. Movie offers followed(three film versions were made), and Hammett became very wealthy. Unfortunately, wine, women,and smoking damaged his already fragile health, and eventually dried up-up his writing career. Admittedly wasteful with money, Hammett abandoned his wife and family, moving to New York, and then to Hollywood, and installed himself at the penthouse at the Beverly ... Read More

7.Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers by: Jo Hammett October 14, 2001
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One star is for the lovely photographs (many of which I've never seen in any other Hammett or Hellman biography or memoir) and the other is for the candor with which the author speaks of her father. Unfortunately, she doesn't really go into much depth about their relationship and deals with her sister, Mary, and that relationship in a superficial fashion. The author has an idealized and rather limited view of the relationship between her parents. Josephine Hammett reveals more of herself, and evokes more sympathy for what could have been between father and daughter, rather than shed any new light on Hammett, the man or the father.

8.British Novelists Between the Wars (Dictionary of Literary Biography) from: Gale Cengage 1998-06
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One star is for the lovely photographs (many of which I've never seen in any other Hammett or Hellman biography or memoir) and the other is for the candor with which the author speaks of her father. Unfortunately, she doesn't really go into much depth about their relationship and deals with her sister, Mary, and that relationship in a superficial fashion. The author has an idealized and rather limited view of the relationship between her parents. Josephine Hammett reveals more of herself, and evokes more sympathy for what could have been between father and daughter, rather than shed any new light on Hammett, the man or the father.

9.Literary Masterpieces: The Maltese Falcon - Volume 3 (Gale Study Guides To Great Literature) by: Richard Layman December 14, 2000
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This probably one of the best mystery novels ever written. Originally published in five issues of an old pulp magazine from 1929 to 1930, this has become the staple for fictional detectives without ethics. This novel and three short stories were the only fiction Dashiell Hammett ever wrote using the Sam Spade character, but I do recommend you also get the book, "The Radio Adventures of Sam Spade" also available on Amazon.com because it'll give you further adventures when you cannot get enough after reading this ficton novel, and learning all you can about the story construction.

10.Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography) from: Gale Cengage 2003-08
Average Rating: >>More Details		Off The Bookshelf's Price: $254.00 Prices subject to change. Used Price: $40.10
This probably one of the best mystery novels ever written. Originally published in five issues of an old pulp magazine from 1929 to 1930, this has become the staple for fictional detectives without ethics. This novel and three short stories were the only fiction Dashiell Hammett ever wrote using the Sam Spade character, but I do recommend you also get the book, "The Radio Adventures of Sam Spade" also available on Amazon.com because it'll give you further adventures when you cannot get enough after reading this ficton novel, and learning all you can about the story construction.

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